Inspector calls

• Act one - a party takes place for Shelia and Gerald’s engagement. Mr Birling makes a speech about the future. Inspector arrives about a suicide of Eva Smith. Mr Birling is questioned first and admits to sacking her because she wanted better pay. Sheila and Eric think he acted harshly but Gerald supports him. Sheila is questioned next and she admits to having Eva sacked from Milwards because of jealousy. we find out Eva changed her name to daisy and Gerald admits to knowing her.
• Act two - Gerald is questioned, he admits she was his mistress. Sheila is hurt and angry at Gerald’s but she feels a certain respect for him being honest. Mrs Birling tries to take control. Sheila realises that her mother might also have had some involvement with the girl. While Eric is out of the room, Mrs Birling is questioned, she is forced to admit that she refused to help daisy Renton. We find out the girl was pregnant, and Mrs Birling lays the blame for the girl’s death on the father of the unborn child.
• Act three - Eric admits that he got Eva pregnant and he stole from his father’s firm to support her but she refused to take it. Eric blames his mother for her death because she refused her help. The Inspector makes a speech about the consequences of social irresponsibility. The Inspector leaves. Gerald and Mr Birling prove that the man was not a real inspector. Mr birling calls the Infirmary and reveals that there has been no recent suicide. sheila and Eric feel guilty but the others don't. Mr Birling answers the phone and is told that woman has just died and an inspector is on his way.
• ’absolutely unsinkable‘ - mr birling
• ’pretty’ - Sheila
• ‘Have responsibilities as well as privileges‘ - the inspector
• ‘We are responsible for each other’ - the inspector
• ‘Pink and intimate… brighter and harder’ - stage direction, mirrors intimidation like the spotlight is on the person in question. The place went from a party to an interrogation.
• ‘Mixed up together like bees in a hive’ - mr birling
• ‘She’s dead.’ - the inspector. Its blunt and monosyllabic which shows how he wants to get his point across and Make sure they learn their lesson.
• ‘Girls of that class‘ - mr birling